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A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

As human beings have grown wealthier, they have come to care about environmental stewardship and gained the resources to act on their newfound compassion for wildlife.

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A mysterious human ancestor with a chimp-sized brain may have performed rituals long before modern humans. Strange carvings ...

Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own ...